Tate Gebhart Madama Butterfly

 
          As much as I love claymation, this is one of the weirdest videos I have ever seen. The storyline is a very typical one. It goes as fallows as a couple has sex before Pinkerton goes off into the navy. Then while he is away Butterfly gives birth to a baby girl that honestly I thought at the time was some mutant because it was shown in the video having no eyes and looked sort of like an alien ,but I digress. After that you see the child still being attached to Butterfly via the umbilical cord and flown around like a kite which honestly weirded the hell out of me. In theory I guess the creator was trying to make the point ,that the child is basically an attachment and created by Butterfly. The old vinyl recorder is  a symbol of Pinkerton and Butterfly's love for one another and shows up in the beginning and end of the video. The really sad part in this video is when I realized that Butterfly waits all this time for Pinkerton to come home just to find out he has moved on to another women and eventually also takes there child with them. The weird part about that scene when the child is taken away is that Pinkerton rips her from the umbilical cord which is really weird ,but the more you think about it the more it makes sense. Pinkerton isn't just leaving her for another women, he is taking a piece of Butterfly away from her.So I guess the creators wanted to make that point clear by literally showing Pinkerton ripping Butterfly's umbilical cord from the child. It gets even weirder and even sadder as now Butterfly is left with no significant other and a piece of her is gone after the child is taken. The character, Butterfly, starts to tear off her female parts and even her face which has to be symbolic ,but honestly just creeped me out.  I think the creator's where trying to show that Butterfly committed suicide because she has nothing left to care about and the video ends with her body parts falling off the cliff to really weird music.  I get there is a  lot of deeper meaning to this video and for it to make sense you can not just look at it at face value. I also can say I do love claymation ,but this is one of the weirdest overall videos I have ever watched.